Watching Sousa now and having traumatic flashbacks to Kuala Lumpur 2013. I miss him.

12-01-2015 10:14 AM

paulxx23

Re: Julien Benneteau

Hope he'll come back with a good push.

11-30-2015 07:40 PM

DBR

Re: Julien Benneteau

There's a French interview with Julien from the FFT today.

He played interclub doubles last week with Mahut, even though he's not yet 100%. He did his last training session with Courteau a few days ago and has started training with his brother Antoine. Julien will travel with Antoine next year, and he's aiming to comeback at the Noumea Challenger in January. He's very grateful to Loic Courteau for their 6 years together. The positive side of the injury is that he could spend the 1st few months at home with his new baby son, Ayrton. He'll use his protected ranking up to Roland Garros, and will play doubles with ERV at big events. He's very committed to doing well in the doubles, as ERV declined offers from other players to stay with Julien. In doubles, he's aiming to qualify for the Masters (World Tour Finals), and in singles he'll try to rebuild his ranking but knows it will take time.